Identifying Health Problems within Your Community

Identifying Health Problems within Your Community
Collaborate With a Public Health Official
Consider the health problems that you see in the community in which you live. Choose one that is most critical and interesting to you. Then, collaborate with a local public health department or state public health department professional to determine what their priorities are. For example, if your health priority is related to teen obesity, contact a school nurse. Use the interaction template to guide your conversations.

Identifying Health Problems within Your Community

Identifying Health Problems within Your Community
The purpose of the collaboration is to determine what the priorities are with regard to health problems, the actions that the health professionals have already taken to mitigate these priorities in the past 5 to 10 years, and the role that social determinants play. If the officials you talk to have differing critical health issues from the one you identified, you may choose the problem you had previously identified or a health priority that was identified as a priority by your local public health official and state public health official during your conversations.
Use the Interaction Template to record the names of the people you collaborated with, their positions, responses to your questions, and a summary of what you learned. The Interaction Template will also help to guide your conversation.

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